Posted on 08/13/2002 11:00:57 AM PDT by heyheyhey
Please, click on the source to read the endnotes.
Evangelization refers to a complex reality that is sometimes misunderstood by reducing it only to the seeking of new candidates for baptism.
Nice art too. Who needs Jan van Eyck's Altarpiece at Ghent when you have this?
Oy vey.
It should be stressed that evangelization... cannot be separated from faith in Jesus Christ.
Has anybody thought about it?
Proclamation and catechesis - the "invitation to a commitment of faith in Jesus Christ and to entry through baptism into the community of believers which is the church"xvi - is sometimes thought to be synonymous with "evangelization." However, this is a very narrow construal and is indeed only one among many aspects of the Church's "evangelizing mission" in the service of Gods' kingdom. Thus, Catholics participating in interreligious dialogue, a mutually enriching sharing of gifts devoid of any intention whatsoever to invite the dialogue partner to baptism, are nonetheless witnessing to their own faith in the kingdom of God embodied in Christ.
A mutually enriching sharing of gifts devoid of sharing the gift of baptism into the Body of Christ?
This statement is just so ... so ... so ... Anglican.
Church has come to recognize that its mission of preparing for the coming of the kingdom of God is one that is shared with the Jewish people, even if Jews do not conceive of this task christologically as the Church does.
Why don’t the US Bishops post each new “document” on FR prior to it being signed and published on their website, and thus avoid embarrassment.
Prof. Tommaso Federici argued on historical and theological grounds that there should be in the Church no organizations of any kind dedicated to the conversion of Jews.
...mission, in this strict sense, cannot be used with regard to Jews, who believe in the true and one God.
Time for a contradicting quote,
Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist. No one who denies the Son has the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well. 1J2, 22-23
we believe God's infinite grace is surely available to believers of other faiths
And a contradicting quote,
There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved. Acts 4, 12
Israel's scriptures form part of our own biblical canon and they have a "perpetual value . . . that has not been canceled by the later interpretation of the New Testament."
A few such new "developments" and the US Bishops may require all Catholic males to circumcise.
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